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23Nov/090

Google Chromium OS

Google Chromium OS or Chrome OS is an open source project created by Google that aims to build an operating system that provide fast, simple and more secure computing experience. The new OS is target for people who spend most of their time on the web.

The following videos explain in detailed what Chrome OS is:

What is Google Chrome OS?

19Nov/092

JavaScript: Overcome Slow Loading JavaScript On A Web Page

Sometime a web page may load slowly due to loading a third party JavaScript source file from other domain. Most of the time, a web site comes with advertisement scripts or scripts for keep tracking visitors and these scripts are normally provided by third parties like Google Adsense, Statcounter, Amazon and etc. When these scripts' loading speed is extremely slow, it blocks the whole page from loading.

19Nov/090

.NET: Microsoft to Open Source .NET Micro Framework

Microsoft has just announced the release of .NET Micro Framework version 4.0. The new .NET Micro Framework's source code will be made available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Dot Net Framework

10Nov/091

Java: Loading Large Data into JTable or JList

In software programming (especially Graphical User Interface or GUI programming), many times, we need to load data from file or database into a table or list to be displayed to user on computer screen. Most of the time, the size of the data can be determined only during runtime. The data could be very small to a few rows of record and could be very large to a few millions rows of record.

18Aug/092

Java: Format Long Integer Into Hexadecimal String

In software programming, sometime you may want to convert a long integer or integer into hexadecimal string for viewing purpose or also as a text format to be stored in text file or database.

The Java API itself does not have a class or function to convert a long into a fixed 16 characters hexadecimal string or an integer into  fixed 8 characters hexadecimal string.

The Java's Long.toHexString(long i) or Integer.toHexString(int i) only able to convert the integer value to a string of ASCII digits in hexadecimal (base 16) with no extra leading 0s and it does not support the reverse way (from hexadecimal string to long integer value).

22Jul/090

Develope a Mortgage Calculator and Win Up to $10000

If you are a programmer, a creative programmer, I have a good news for you. Mortgage Loan Place is having a programming contest - The "Super Sexy" Mortgage Calculator Contest. You can have a chance to win $10,000 of extra pocket money by developing a mortgage calculator. The winner's calculator will become the centerpiece of the tools section on Mortgage Loan Place.

Mortgage Calculator Contest

7Jul/090

BigDump: Alternative to phpMyAdmin to Import/Restore Large Database

Recently I was facing problem on restoring database with a lot of data into MYSQL using phpMyAdmin. The restoring process keeps interrupted due to the connection between browser and server time's timeout and also due to the timeout in PHP script. Only partial data is restored and I kept dropping the database, increase PHP timeout, increased memory limit, and tried to restore again. But it still failed.

5Jul/090

Java: Mortgage Payment Calculator

Mortgage Payment Calculator is a tool to calculate the monthly repayment for a fixed rate mortgage. The calculator is written in Java programming language (Java Applet) and can be ran at any web browser. You must have Java plug-in installed on your computer in order to run this web application.

18Jun/090

Sitestimator.com: New Badge Released

Sitestimator.com, a website value evaluation tool, has developed and released a new badge. The new badge comes with new design, one of most famous ads size on the Internet - 125 pixels height and 125 pixels width.

16Jun/090

Java: Stop A Thread Correctly

In Java programming, it is very common to use threads to perform multi tasks simultaneously. Starting a thread is pretty easy but stopping a thread might be a headache for some programmers, especially when the thread needs to run a task that takes some times.